Bounded Choice

Emerson on cults and bounded choice

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Some months after leaving the IMT, I bought a collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings. I’ve flipped through it only a few times, and it has been lying on my bookshelf, pregnant with dormant wisdom, for the last couple of years. For some reason, I never read his most famous essay, ‘Self-Reliance’ (1841), until just … Read more

Janja Lalich and Bounded Choice

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Janja Lalich is a cult expert and a former member of the Democratic Workers’ Party (DWP), one of many left-wing cults that existed in the 1970s. She has been one of the people whose work has been of help to me in my recovery from cultism. She has written and spoken extensively about her experiences … Read more